The Lightning Thief
by I finally got The Son to listen to chapter books for bedtime reading. I had no success with the Harry Potter books. His babysitter recommended …
Year: 2010
The Winter Olympic Events I Want to See
I don’t have Olympic fever because I’m not that interested in the headline events. My tastes are a bit quirkier. I hate ice skating. The …
Here I Am. . . . Again
Location-based games and location-based social networking sites have exploded along with the proliferation of GPS enabled phones. I’ve tried my hand at BrightKite, FourSquare, and …
Who Says You Need a Mountain to Snowboard?
They got feet of snow in Washington, D.C. with no mountains to go snowboarding. Who needs a mountain? With that much snow on the ground …
Home of the World’s Worst Weather?
During an April storm in 1934, a wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 kilometers per hour) threw itself across the summit of Mount …